Publications

Dhillon-Richardson RM*, Haugan AK*, Martik ML. (2022) Fishing for developmental regulatory regions: Zebrafish tissue-specific ATAC-seq. Methods in Molecular Biology. In press.

Lamanna F, Hervas-Sotomayor F, Oel AP, Jandzik D, Sobrido-Camean D, Martik ML, Green SA, Bruning T, Mobinger K, Schmidt J, Schneider C, Sepp M, Murat F, Smith JJ, Bronner ME, Rodicio MC, Barreiro-Iglesias A, Medeiros DM, Arendt D, Kaessmann H. (2022) Reconstructing the ancestral vertebrate brain using a lamprey neural cell type atlas. Biorxiv 2022.02.28.482278 (doi:10.1101/2022.02.28.482278)

Martik ML and Bronner ME. (2021) Riding the crest to get a head: neural crest evolution in vertebrates. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-021-00503-2)

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Martik ML. (2020) Metabolism makes and mends the heart. eLife. 2020;9:e54665 (doi:10.7554/eLife.54665)

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McClay DR, Warner JF, Martik ML, Miranda E, Slota L. (2020) Gastrulation in the sea urchin. CurrentTopics in Developmental Biology. 2020;136:195-218. (https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.ctdb.2019.08.004)

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Martik ML, Gandhi S, Uy BR, Green SA, Gillis JA, Simoes-Costa M, and Bronner ME. (2019) Evolution of the New Head by gradual acquisition of neural crest regulatory circuits. Nature. 220, 268-4. 

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Tang W*, Martik ML*, Li Y, and Bronner ME. (2019) Cardiac neural crest contributes to cardiomyocytes in amniotes and heart regeneration in zebrafish. eLife. 2019;8:e47929 (doi:10.7554/eLife.47929)

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Martik ML and Bronner ME. (2017) Regulatory logic underlying diversification of the neural crest. Trends in Genetics. 33(10):715-727. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2017.07.015)

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Martik ML and McClay DR. (2017) New insights from a high-resolution look at gastrulation in the sea urchin, Lytechinus variegatus. Mechanisms of Development.  pii: S0925-4773(17)30002-3. (doi:10.1016/j.mod.2017.06.005)

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Martik ML, Lyons DC, McClay DR. (2016) Developmental gene regulatory networks and what we can learn from them. F1000Research, 5(F1000 Faculty Rev):203 (doi: 10.12688/f1000research.7381.1).

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Israel JW, Martik ML, Byrne M, Raff EC, Raff RA, McClay DR, Wray GA. (2016) Comparative Developmental Transcriptomics Reveals Rewiring of a Highly Conserved Gene Regulatory Network during a Major Life History Switch in the Sea Urchin Genus Heliocidaris. PLoSBiology. 14(3): e1002391. (doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002391.)

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Martik ML and McClay DR. (2015). Deployment of a retinal determination gene network drives directed cell migration. eLife. 2015;10.7554/eLife.08827. 

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Lyons DC, Martik ML, Saunders LR, McClay DR. (2014). Specification to biomineralization: following a single cell type as it constructs a skeleton. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 54(4):723-733.

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McIntyre DC, Lyons DC, Martik ML, McClay DR. (2014.) Branching out: origins of the sea urchin larval skeleton in development and evolution. Genesis. 52(3):173-185.

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Martik ML and McClay DR. (2013). Gut development in the sea urchin.Translational Gastroenterology, from Development to Disease. John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, New Jersey

Yankura KA, Martik ML, Jennings CK, Hinman VF. (2010). Uncoupling of complex regulatory patterning during evolution of larval development in echinoderms.  BMC Biology. Nov 30;8:143.

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